scornful

English

scorn +‎ -ful

scornful (comparative more scornful, superlative most scornful)

Showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous.
- 1549 March 7, Thomas Cranmer [et al.], compilers, “The Introites, Collectes, Epistles, and Gospels to be Used at the Celebracion of the Lordes Supper & Holy Communion, throughe the Yeare: With Proper Psalmes, and Lessons for Diuers Feastes and Dayes”, in The Booke of the Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacramentes, […], London: In officina Edowardi Whitchurche […], OCLC 56485293, folio viia, recto:
  Bleſſed is that man that hath not walked in the counſaile of the vngodly: nor ſtand in the waye of ſynners, and hath not ſit in the ſeate of ſkornefull.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, “Silverside”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326, page 316:
  Elbows almost touching they leaned at ease, idly reading the almost obliterated lines engraved there. "I never understood it," she observed, lightly scornful. "What occult meaning has a sun-dial for the spooney? I'm sure I don't want to read riddles in a strange gentleman's optics."

showing scorn or disrespect; contemptuous

Chinese:
Mandarin: 輕視的 (zh), 轻视的 (zh) (qīngshì de)
Czech: pohrdavý f
Dutch: minachtend (nl), minachtende
Finnish: ylenkatseellinen, ivallinen (fi), halveksiva (fi)
French: méprisant (fr)
German: verächtlich (de)
Greek: περιφρονητικός (el) m (perifronitikós), καταφρονητικός (el) m (katafronitikós)

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